The story takes place a few years after the events of
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Young
Anakin Skywalker chafes under his new life as a Jedi apprentice. He sneaks away from
Obi-Wan Kenobi to participate in and gamble on deadly flying games. This is interrupted by a Blood Carver assassin who tries to kill Anakin but is stopped by Obi-Wan. The Jedi Council decides Anakin would be best served to send him with Obi-Wan to investigate the remote world of Zonama Sekot, a world that produces organic spacecraft. A Jedi has gone missing on Sekot. A battle squadron pursues the two Jedi; it is headed by a weapons designer that has already blueprinted the
Death Star. Commander Tarkin, the future
Grand Moff Tarkin becomes involved as well. They also bring the Blood Carver assassin with them. While the fleet approaches the planet and then tries to invade it, the Jedi grow their own ship. This leads to a confrontation between the two forces which ends with the sentient planet of Zonama Sekot using massive hyperspace engines to flee from Tarkin's fleets and the Jedi narrowly escaping this fleet. ==Links to other Expanded Universe material==